Opinion: Private facilities will bring much needed competition to Canadian health care

The current shortage of family doctors was created by former governments but, when it comes to surgeons, many today are underemployed, including young orthopedic surgeons who are denied hospital privileges and operating room time. Twenty-three of Cambie Surgery Centre’s 78 visiting surgeons reported they would not be practising in Canada if it were not for the additional O.R. time we offer them.

Canada has an above-average number of nurses per capita among OECD countries. Many graduating nurses consider employment in the U.S. A single Detroit district employs more than 1,000 Ontario-based nurses, many of whom commute across the border. They exit the Canadian work force because of the toxic environment in our public hospitals. Mr. Ford’s plan will certainly cause many of them to return based on better working conditions at private facilities.

In the 1990s, governments across Canada closed hospitals and cut hospital beds, causing our world ranking of hospital beds per capita to fall from 8th to 30th today. Roy Romanow, when he was the NDP premier of Saskatchewan, oversaw the closing of 52 hospitals. He was rewarded by being made chair of the 2002 Royal Commission on Health.

Private for-profit facilities providing public surgeries offer significant economic advantages for governments. The centres are built at no cost to taxpayers and the construction phase creates jobs and economic activity. If these facilities are successful, unlike public hospitals, the centres generate tax revenue for all three levels of government. If they fail, the government does not suffer any losses.

Absofuckinglutely! It's 2023 and we are still using Canada's dark age health care model vers 1953.

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